"his father, who is dying of starvation. Rose of Sharon takes pity on the man and offers him her breast milk to save him from starvation. Many scholars note Steinbeck for his many uses of Christian imagery within ""The Grapes of Wrath."" The largest implications lie with Tom Joad and Jim Casy, who are both interpreted as Christ-like figures at certain intervals within the novel. These two are often interpreted together, with Jim Casy representing Jesus Christ in the early days of his ministry, up until his death, which is interpreted as representing the death of Christ. From there, Tom"
"The Red Pony The Red Pony is an episodic novella written by American writer John Steinbeck in 1933. The first three chapters were published in magazines from 1933–1936, and the full book was published in 1937 by Covici Friede. The stories in the book are tales of a boy named Jody Tiflin. The book has four different stories about Jody and his life on his father's California ranch. Other main characters include Carl Tiflin – Jody's father; Billy Buck – an expert in horses and a working hand on the ranch; Mrs. Tiflin – Jody's mother; Jody's grandfather – Mrs."
"Steinbeck's best-selling novel from 1939 ""The Grapes of Wrath"", starring Henry Fonda and directed by John Ford. He portrayed the role of ""Winfield Joad"", the youngest member of a family trying to cope with the hardships of The Great Depression. The film was a critical and commercial success, with Ford winning an Academy Award for Best Director, while actress Jane Darwell won for Best Supporting Actress. Another notable role during this time included the war-time melodrama ""The Human Comedy"", where he played a mentally slow child. Hickman made a featured appearance as well as ""Frank"" in the 1942 ""Our Gang"""
"""The Pearl"", ""Of Mice and Men"" is one of Steinbeck's best known works. It was made into a movie three times, in 1939 starring Burgess Meredith, Lon Chaney Jr., and Betty Field, in 1982 starring Randy Quaid, Robert Blake and Ted Neeley, and in 1992 starring Gary Sinise and John Malkovich. The ""Grapes of Wrath"" is set in the Great Depression and describes a family of sharecroppers, the Joads, who were driven from their land due to the dust storms of the Dust Bowl. The title is a reference to the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Some critics found it"
"The Grapes of Wrath (film) The Grapes of Wrath is a 1940 American drama film directed by John Ford. It was based on John Steinbeck's 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Nunnally Johnson and the executive producer was Darryl F. Zanuck. The film tells the story of the Joads, an Oklahoma family, who, after losing their farm during the Great Depression in the 1930s, become migrant workers and end up in California. The motion picture details their arduous journey across the United States as they travel to California in search of work and"
"of Daryl F. Zanuck, outtakes, a gallery, Franklin D. Roosevelt lauds motion pictures at Academy featurette, Movietone news: three drought reports from 1934, etc. The film was released on Blu-ray on April 3, 2012, and features all supplemental material from the DVD release. The Grapes of Wrath (film) The Grapes of Wrath is a 1940 American drama film directed by John Ford. It was based on John Steinbeck's 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Nunnally Johnson and the executive producer was Darryl F. Zanuck. The film tells the story of the Joads, an"
"(1902–1968) was born in Salinas, California, where he set many of his stories. His style was simple and evocative, winning him the favor of the readers but not of the critics. Steinbeck often wrote about poor, working-class people and their struggle to lead a decent and honest life. ""The Grapes of Wrath"", considered his masterpiece, is a strong, socially-oriented novel that tells the story of the Joads, a poor family from Oklahoma and their journey to California in search of a better life. Other popular novels include ""Tortilla Flat"", ""Of Mice and Men"", ""Cannery Row"", and ""East of Eden"". He"
"writing, as authors have sought to evaluate an era that caused both financial and emotional trauma. Perhaps the most noteworthy and famous novel written on the subject is ""The Grapes of Wrath"", published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, who was awarded both the Nobel Prize for literature and the Pulitzer Prize for the work. The novel focuses on a poor family of sharecroppers who are forced from their home as drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agricultural industry occur during the Great Depression. Steinbeck's ""Of Mice and Men"" is another important novella about a journey during the"
"East of Eden (novel) East of Eden is a novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, published in September 1952. Often described as Steinbeck's most ambitious novel, ""East of Eden"" brings to life the intricate details of two families, the Trasks and the Hamiltons, and their interwoven stories. The novel was originally addressed to Steinbeck's young sons, Thom and John (then 6½ and 4½ years old, respectively). Steinbeck wanted to describe the Salinas Valley for them in detail: the sights, sounds, smells, and colors. The Hamilton family in the novel is said to be based on the real-life family of"
"The Wayward Bus The Wayward Bus is a novel by American author John Steinbeck, originally published in 1947. The novel's epigraph is a passage from 15th-century English play ""Everyman"", with its archaic English intact; the quotation refers to the transitory nature of humanity. Although considered one of Steinbeck's weaker novels at the time of its original publication, ""The Wayward Bus"" was financially more successful than any of his previous works. Steinbeck dedicated this novel to ""Gwyn"", thought to be a reference to his second wife Gwyndolyn Conger. The couple divorced less than a year after the book was published. No"
"Rosa's stretch of Route 66 is part of film history. When John Steinbeck's epic novel, ""The Grapes of Wrath"", was made into a movie, director John Ford used Santa Rosa for the memorable train scene. Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) watches a freight train steam over the Pecos River railroad bridge, into the sunset. It was also one of the shooting scenes for ""Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw"" starring Lynda Carter in the titular role. The town was the childhood home of author Rudolfo Anaya, and is the basis for the fictional town of Guadalupe in his autobiographical novel ""Bless Me,"
"Of Mice and Men in popular culture Of Mice and Men is a novella by John Steinbeck, which tells the story of George and Lennie, two displaced migrant workers in California during the Great Depression (1929–1939). The story is set on a ranch a few miles from Soledad in the Salinas Valley. Since its initial publication in 1937, it has been frequently referenced in popular culture. Homages to the characters Lennie and George have been especially popular in American cartoons and animated films. The ""New York Times"" reviewed the 1939 film based on the novella thusly: Theatrical cartoon shorts of"
"book"". (Whether they do indeed die is disputed by critics, as the author says ""if our time-racked flat-lying couple ever intended to die"".) Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1969. ""Ada"" began to materialize in 1959, when Nabokov was flirting with two projects, ""The Texture of Time"" and ""Letters from Terra"". In 1965, he began to see a link between the two ideas, finally composing a unified novel from February 1966 to October 1968. The published cumulation would become his longest work. ""Ada"" was initially given"
"The Pearl (novel) The Pearl is a novella by American author John Steinbeck, first published in 1947. This story is about a poor family which is more likely described as native Americans, who discovers an enormous and valuable pearl. The novella explores man's nature as well as greed, defiance of societal norms, and evil. Steinbeck's inspiration was a Mexican Folk Tale from La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, which he had heard in a visit to the formerly pearl-rich region in 1940. In 1947, it was adapted into a Mexican film named ""La perla"" and in 1987 into a cult"
"Wrath"", in which themes of conversion and self-sacrifice play a major part in the characters Casy and Tom who achieve spiritual transcendence through conversion. Steinbeck's contacts with leftist authors, journalists, and labor union figures may have influenced his writing. He joined the League of American Writers, a Communist organization, in 1935. Steinbeck was mentored by radical writers Lincoln Steffens and his wife Ella Winter. Through Francis Whitaker, a member of the Communist Party USA's John Reed Club for writers, Steinbeck met with strike organizers from the Cannery and Agricultural Workers' Industrial Union. In 1939, he signed a letter with some"
"before Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The book reached #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list (Non-Fiction) on October 21, 1962, where it stayed for one week, being replaced by Rachel Carson's ""Silent Spring"" on October 28. In the Steinbeck novel ""The Pastures of Heaven"", one of the characters regards Robert Louis Stevenson's ""Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes"" as one of the single greatest works of English literature and eventually names his infant son Robert Louis. Later on, Steinbeck and his wife Elaine were inspired by Stevenson in choosing the title ""Travels with"
"his ego, likewise confuses the plot. In directing the picture, Mr. Milestone has adopted a frankly casual style which further invests the proceedings with a languid quality."" The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: The Red Pony (1949 film) The Red Pony is a 1949 Technicolor Western drama film based on John Steinbeck's 1937 novella of the same name. Steinbeck also wrote the screenplay for this film. A young boy, Tom Tiflin (Peter Miles), is given a small pony by his father (Shepperd Strudwick). Tom asks the stable helper, Billy Buck (Robert Mitchum), to help him"
"her, and then he leaves to continue the fighting in the war against the British. The novel is seen on Walter White's bedside table in Season 5, Episode 2 of the AMC television show ""Breaking Bad"", ""Madrigal,"" when Walter moves the bedside table in order to hide a vial of ricin in the electrical socket. The Bastard (novel) The Bastard is a historical novel written by John Jakes and originally published in 1974. It is book one in a series known as The Kent Family Chronicles or the American Bicentennial Series. The novel mixes fictional characters with historical events or"
"campaign. He was 19 years old at the time. John Steinbeck's 1939 novel ""The Grapes of Wrath"" won the Pulitzer Prize for its controversial characterization of the Okie lifestyle and journey to California. In James Blish's ""Cities in Flight"" science fiction series, the term ""Okie"" was applied in a similar context to entire cities that, thanks to an anti-gravity device, take flight to the stars in order to escape an economic collapse on Earth. Working as a migrant labor force, these cities act as cultural pollinators, spreading technology and knowledge throughout the expanding human civilization. The later novels focus on"
"The Red Pony (1949 film) The Red Pony is a 1949 Technicolor Western drama film based on John Steinbeck's 1937 novella of the same name. Steinbeck also wrote the screenplay for this film. A young boy, Tom Tiflin (Peter Miles), is given a small pony by his father (Shepperd Strudwick). Tom asks the stable helper, Billy Buck (Robert Mitchum), to help him raise and train it so that it can be ridden. During a rain storm the pony gets out of the stable and having been soaked becomes fevered. Despite Buck's best efforts to nurse the pony it develops strangles"
"is one of 75 adventure ""romance"" novels that Mayne Reid wrote in his lifetime, including ""The Rifle Rangers"" (1850), ""The White Chief"" (1855), ""The Scalp Hunters"" (1856), and ""The Headless Horseman"" (1866). Starting in Vicksburg, Mississippi preceding the abolition of slavery, ""The Yellow Chief"" begins on the plantation of the Blackadder family. Blount Blackadder, the 18-year-old son of the plantation owner Squire Blackadder, punishes a mulatto slave, Blue Dick, out of revenge over a girl, a quadroon named Sylvia. The 'punishment of the pump', a frequent act at the Blackadder plantation, consists of placing the victims head directly under the"
"The Bastard (novel) The Bastard is a historical novel written by John Jakes and originally published in 1974. It is book one in a series known as The Kent Family Chronicles or the American Bicentennial Series. The novel mixes fictional characters with historical events or people, to tell the story of the United States of America in the time period leading up to the American Revolution. The novel was adapted into a four-hour television film in 1978, ""The Bastard"". The story begins in November 1770 in Auvergne, France, near Chavaniac. Philippe Charboneau, a seventeen-year-old boy, is living with his mother,"
"Act V, where he sneaks on board a truck full of timber and witnesses the death of Macbeth before killing the maid and being directed home by Macduff. Fleance's line ""The moon is down, I have not heard the clock"" was the inspiration for the title of John Steinbeck's 1942 short novel ""The Moon is Down"". Fleance's line foreshadows the evil encompassing the kingdom. The book was published just as the United States entered World War II and signalled the threat of the Axis powers by outlining the events in a European town occupied by foreign powers. Steinbeck's book became"
"is well known that the first book that captured Steinbeck's youthful imagination was a juvenile version of the King Arthur stories. He was introduced to Thomas Malory's version of the Arthurian legend by Aunt Molly, his mother's bookish sister, when he visited her in the summer of 1912. Steinbeck critic Joseph Fontenrose has shown how closely ""Tortilla Flat"" parallels the Arthurian saga, uncovering the following parallels: In ""Tortilla Flat"" Steinbeck also expressed his philosophy of group-man. During the Depression it was difficult for a family to stay together, financially, spiritually, psychologically. Looking backwards, in ""Tortilla Flat"", Steinbeck shows the individuals"
"Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov published in 1969. ""Ada"" began to materialize in 1959, when Nabokov was flirting with two projects, ""The Texture of Time"" and ""Letters from Terra"". In 1965, he began to see a link between the two ideas, finally composing a unified novel from February 1966 to October 1968. The published cumulation would become his longest work. ""Ada"" was initially given a mixed reception. But, writing in ""The New York Times Book Review"", noted scholar Alfred Appel called it ""a great work of art,"
"Purvis in 'Tom Joad' — is the protagonist of John Steinbeck's ""The Grapes of Wrath"". Hannibal Lecter appears as the head of the Department of Health, and John Rambo helps train Vietnamese Communists. Rambo is played in a film by Raymond Massey. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart appears as a British officer in ""Teddy Bears' Picnic"" (though ""Doctor Who"" is referred to as fiction in the same story), as do Nigel Molesworth and Basil Fotherington-Thomas. Back in the USSA Back in the USSA () is a collection of seven short stories by Eugene Byrne and Kim Newman, which was published in 1997 by"
"novel, Adam Schonberg, a third year medical student, has to leave his medical education midway for want of money as his wife becomes pregnant and later on trapped in the clutches of unethical medical practice. Adam finally succeeds in unraveling the mystery behind Arolem pharmaceuticals. They drug the doctors and later perform psychological surgery on them aboard the ship (Fjord) which makes them opt to join the Julian Clinic. Mindbend Mindbend is a novel by the author Robin Cook, first published in 1985. The current paperback edition is available with . Arolen is a giant pharmaceutical company, expanding at rapid"
"Jean Craighead George Jean Carolyn Craighead George (July 2, 1919 – May 15, 2012) was an American writer of more than one hundred books for children and young adults, including the Newbery Medal-winning ""Julie of the Wolves"" and Newbery runner-up ""My Side of the Mountain"". Common themes in George's works are the environment and the natural world. Beside children's fiction, she wrote at least two guides to cooking with wild foods and one autobiography published 30 years before her death, ""Journey Inward"". For her lifetime contribution as a children's writer she was U.S. nominee for the biennial, international Hans Christian"
"too sympathetic to the workers' plight and too critical of capitalism, but found a large audience of its own. It won both the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction (novels) and was adapted as a film starring Henry Fonda and Jane Darwell and directed by John Ford. Steinbeck deals with the nature of good and evil in this Salinas Valley saga. The story follows two families: the Hamiltons – based on Steinbeck's own maternal ancestry – and the Trasks, reprising stories about the Biblical Adam and his progeny. The book was published in 1952. It was made into"
"The Long Valley The Long Valley is a collection of short stories written by the American author John Steinbeck. The collection was first published in 1938. It comprises 12 short stories. The short stories were written over several years and are set in Steinbeck's birthplace, the Salinas Valley in California. They include the prize-winning tale ""The Murder""; ""The Chrysanthemums""; the representation of lynch mob violence in ""The Vigilante"", inspired by the lynching of the confessed murderers of Brooke Hart; and the classic ""Red Pony"" tales. Many of the stories were published previously. The ""Red Pony"" was written in 1933 and"
"many migrants, and not enough money or work available to make the hardships and expense of the trip worthwhile. The message of the song parallels a theme of John Steinbeck's seminal novel ""The Grapes of Wrath"", wherein the Joad family makes a dangerous, expensive trip from their home in Oklahoma to California. They encounter a fellow Dust Bowl migrant at a roadside rest-stop who tells them to turn back, echoing the cautionary tone of the song. He cites his own loss and misfortune (he mentions the trials of his dead wife and his underfed children 'moaning like pups') as a"
"for long enough to establish one, less they starve. Most needed of these resources—yet most inaccessible—are hospitals. Steinbeck follows a former Oklahoma ranching family’s medical struggles, illustrating the unavailability of medical care and other welfare services for migrant workers. The family consists of a fifty-year-old father, a forty-five-year-old mother, two sons, fifteen and twelve, and a six-year-old daughter traveling to California in their truck, starting off picking oranges. When their truck breaks down, fixing it consumes a third of their initial earnings. This leaves little money to pay for medical problems—the father’s sprained ankle and the daughter’s measles. With the"
"To a God Unknown To a God Unknown is a novel by John Steinbeck, first published in 1933. The book was Steinbeck's third novel (after his unsuccessful ""Cup of Gold""). Steinbeck found ""To a God Unknown"" extremely difficult to write; taking him roughly five years to complete, the novella proved more time-consuming than either ""East of Eden"" or ""The Grapes of Wrath"", Steinbeck's longest novels. In this short novel, Steinbeck explores the relationship of man to his land. The plot follows a man, Joseph Wayne, who moves to California in order to establish a homestead. He is joined by his"